...Bedman Narteh Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that influence retail bank switching in the Ghanaian banking sector. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed review of the extant literature and focus group discussions was used to identify 31 variables which...

...John McManus; David Floyd; David Gray Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the banking crisis in the USA and Western Europe that began in August 2007 spilled over to the currencies of the EU‐8 such that it could be viewed as financial contagion. The currencies of the EU‐8 which...

...O. Felix Ayadi; Evelyn Richard; Marcellina Chijoriga; Erasmus Kaijage; Christer Peterson; Hakan Bohman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to be used further in understanding credit risk management (CRM) system of commercial banks (CBs) in an economy with less...

...Jörg Mannsberger; J. Brad McBride Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the two‐step process of bank privatization in Mexico in the 1990s that necessitated a government bailout quite costly to Mexican taxpayers, and which has become emblematic as a cause of resentment against market...